[isf-wifidog] Trusted MAC Addresses [again]

[Derek Conniffe]

Hi Max,

Thats very useful too - I've no problem working with the WifiDOG CLI

thanks very much - the future is looking bright for me now!

Derek

Max Horváth wrote:
> Well, this won't be very comfortable, but if you don't mind the SQL
> console, any other PostgreSQL client program or writing a small PHP
> script, you could fetch the data directly from the database as Wifidog
> logs every MAC in the statistics ...
> 
> Cheers, Max
> 
> Ken Caruso wrote:
> 
>>> Derek Conniffe wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> Sorry to email about this again - I've got myself stuck in a bad
>>>> situation.
>>>> I'm running Metrix Pyramid on WRAP hardware acting as wireless internet
>>>> antennas and I've got a number of customers accessing the Internet via
>>>> these antennas.
>>>> I want to lock down the system with Wifidog and only allow the trusted
>>>> [paying] users access and, thankfully, I can easily do this by MAC
>>>> address in wifidog via the "TrustedMACList" directive in wifidog.conf.
>>>> The big problem I have is that I don't know the current MAC addresses
>>>> that the customers are using to access the antennas - if I did I'd have
>>>> no problems.
>>>> But neither madwifi or wifidog (in debug mode with -f -d 7) appears to
>>>> be able to tell me the MAC addresses of the connecting clients - so I'm
>>>> stuck currently (I really don't want to call into every customer to get
>>>> their MAC address).
>>>
>>> WRT madwifi on Pyramid did you try:
>>>
>>> wlanconfig INT list sta  (where INT is your atheros interface).
>>>
>>> If all else fails dumping the arp table while clients are associated
>>> should show you the macs as well, "arp -a".
>>>
>>> -Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>> thank you very very much
>>>> Derek
>>>
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